CONGRATULATIONS to our newest ambassadors!
Riley Barnes (12)
Back in 2018, Riley wanted a summer job to earn some money. She decided to try raising chickens so that she could sell their eggs. Her parents bought her the first 12 chickens with the stipulation that she would pay for the chickens, their feed and other expenses from the proceeds of her egg sales. Since she began, she has grown her flock to 78 chickens, has them nicely organized by age and follows their egg production, feeds and cares for them every day, and sells a LOT of eggs. In 2020, she sold 11702 eggs and in 2021 she sold 7000 eggs. She has used some of the profits from her business to provide for others in the community. In 2019, she helped a single mom with very limited funds by buying all of her children’s Christmas gifts that year. Later, she put together a big care package for a man with cancer. She “absolutely loves giving back and helping others.”
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Bryson Cope (13)
Bryson heard about the 50 yard lawnmowing challenge and decided to take the challenge. He is in the middle of his challenge and is mowing lawns for the elderly and disabled in his community. In addition, he is looking towards becoming a “junior volunteer fireman” when he turns 14 and plans to continue mowing lawns for others even after he has met the challenge.
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Kaylee Lewis |
Ava Brown (13) |
Kaylee's artistic and creative photographs of Davie County, NC are taken in hopes that people will appreciate and respect the beauty of our county even more than we already do!
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Ava learned about DRI from a video shown at school. Shortly after seeing the video, she noticed that students were coming up to her teachers and requesting a pencil to do their work with. These are not supplied by the school system, but are paid for by the teachers from their own money. Ava thought that it would be respectful to her teachers to start a project to obtain and supply pencils to all of the schools in Davie County so that students wouldn’t have to take the teacher’s pencils. She is thinking about other ways that she can help out her teachers, perhaps by providing erasers to go with the pencils. Her project is called “Pencils for Peers”!
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